The Year of the Hangman by Gary L. Blackwood

His plays have been produced in regional and universities theatres. The year is 1777, also known as the Year of the Hangman, due to the many hangings in England that year and the three backwards sevens that represent the. including the nonfiction series SECRETS OF THE UNEXPLAINED and the historical novels The Shakespeare Stealer, The Year of the Hangman. Over the years, he has traveled all over the country, spreading his stories and answering the questions of young readers about his books.īlackwood has also written half a dozen plays. He has sold dozens of stories to children's magazines, and has published twenty-one novels for young adults and middle readers. Blackwood’s 2002 young adult novel that was a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. With careful attention to details of the time, the author re-creates a swashbuckling world where men duel with swords if their honor is questioned, where females disguise themselves as males if they want a life on the theater stage, and where servants do not question the word of their masters. The Year of the Hangman is American author Gary L.

Blackwood sets his tale of theatrical intrigue against the backdrop of Elizabethan London in 1601. Blackwood's first book was The Lion and the Unicorn, which he published when he was nineteen. While a college student, Blackwood published his first short story, Cliffs of Gold, in Twelve/ Fifteen magazine. in English from Grove City College in Pennsylvania. He attended school in a one room schoolhouse. He grew up in rural Cochranton, Western Pennsylvania.

The Year of the Hangman by Gary L. Blackwood